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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
HEZEKIAH BEDOTT.

He was wonderful hand to moralize,
husband was, specially after he begun to
enjoy poor health. He made an observa-
ton once when he was in one of his poor
turns, that never shall forget the longest
day l live. He says to me one winter
evenin' as we was a settin' by the fire;
was knittin' Il was always a wonderful
great knitter) and he was a smokin' Che
was master hand to smoke). Well, he
took his pipe out of his mouth and turned
toward me, and knowed something was
comm for he had a pertikeler way of
lookin' round when he was gwine to say
anything uncommon. Well, he says to
me, says he, "Silly," (my name was Pris-
silly materially, but he ginerally called me
"Silly," cause twas handler, you know.
Well, he says to me, says he, "Silly," and
he looked pretty sollem, / tell you, he
had sollem countenance naterally-and
after he got to be deacon, was more so,
but since he'd lost his health he looked
sollemer than ever, and certingly you
wouldn't wonder at it if you knowed how
much he underwent. He was troubled
with wonderful pain in his chest, and
amazin' weakness in the spine of his
back, besides the pleurissy in the side,
and having the ager considerable part
of the time, and bein' broke of his rest o.
nights cause he was so put to t for
breath when he laid down. Why, it is
an onaccountable fact that when that man
died he hadent seen a well day in fifteen
year, though when he was married, and
for five or six year after, 1 shouldn't
desire to see ruggeder man than what he
was. But the time I'm speakin' of he'd
been ont O health nigh upon ten year,
and o dear sakes! how he had altered
since the first time 1 ever seen him! That
was to quiltin' to Squire Smiths spell
afore Sally was married. I'd no idee
then that Sal Smith was gwine to be
married to Sam Pendergrass. She'd ben
keepin' company with Nose Hewitt, for
bettern'n year, and everybody said that
was a settled thing, and behold! all of a
sudding she up and took Sam Pendergrass
Well, that was the first time ever see my
husband, and if anybody'd told me
then that l should ever marry him,
should a said-but lawful sakesl most
forgot, was gwine to tell you what he
said to me that evenin', and when body
begins to tell thing believe fnishin'
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
HEROIC LIVES AT HOME.

The heroism of private life, and slow,
unchronicled martyrdoms of the heart,
who shall remember? Greater than any
knightly dragon.slayer of old is the man
who overcomes an unholy passion, sets
his foot upon it, and stands serene and
strong in virtue. Grander than Zenobia
is the woman who struggles with love
that would wrong another or degrade her
own soul, and conquers. The young man,
ardent and tender, who turns from the
dear love of women, and buries deep in
his heart the sweet instinct of paternity,
to devote himself to the care and support
OF aged parents or an unfortunate sister,
and whose life is a long sacrifice in manly
cheerfulness and majestic spirit, is hero
of the purest type-the type of Charles
Lamb. have known but two such.
The young woman who resolutely stays
with father and mother in the old home
while brothers and sisters go forth to
happy homes of their own; who cheerfully
lays on the altar of filial duty that cost
lest of human sacrifices, the joy of low
ing and being loved-she is a heroine. L
have known many such.
The husband who goes home from
everyday routine, and the perplexing
cares of business, with cheerful smile
and loving word to his invalid wife;
who brings not against her the grievous
sin of long sickness, and reproaches
her not for the cost and discomfort there
of; who sees in her languid eyes some
thing dearer than girlish laughter, in the
sad face and faded cheeks that blossom
into smiles and even bushes at his COM
ing, something lovelier than the old time
spring roses-he is a hero. 1 think 1
know one such.
The wife who bears her part in the bur-
den OF life-even though it be the larger
part-bravely, cheerfully, never dream
ing that she is heroine, much less a
martyr; who bears with the faults of a
husband, not altogether congenial, with
loving patience and large charity, and
with noble decision hiding them from the
world who makes no con6dants and asks
no confidence; who refrains from brood
ing over shortcomings in sympathy and
sentiment, and from seeking perilous
"afEnities;;" who does not build high
tragedy sorrows on the inevitable, nor
feel an earthquake in every family jar;
who sees her husband united with herself
indissolubly and eternally in their chill
dren-she the wife in very truth, in the
though of rather on questionable type.
Grace Greenwood.
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HOW VARIOUS AUTHORS WORK

HOW VARIOUS AUTHORS WORK.
Justin Mccarthy does most of his writ
ing between in the morning and II
o'clock, noon. Dion Bouccicault drinks
a pot of strong breakfast tea, eats a bis
cult and goes to work between 5 and 6 in
the morning, finishing by or 10 o'clock.
Augustin DAILY rarely undertakes sus-
tanned literary labor until after IL o'clock
at night.
John Russell Young is another night
writer, and he has curious haLits. He
uses a fine pointed pen, makes very small
characters, and when engaged in reaec-
ton draws his pen around between the
lines and words, making puddles of ink
that gives his manuscript the appearance
of one of Schwatka's maps of Alaska.
George Alfred Townsend dictates almost
every line of his work to stenographer.
SO does Joseph Howard, Jr.
EGeorge Augustus Sala writes with a
fine pen and makes manuscript 80 small
and close that it is read with difficulty.
Sala works in the morning and sometimes
well along toward the middle of the
afternoon. Sardou, when he gets play
into his mind, moves out to his country
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
FLOWERS OF PALESTINE.

The circuit OF the Jordan and vale of
the Dead Sea are warm, very warm; in
fact, except in winter time, hot. Properly
speaking however, they know no winter.
The climate is sub-tropical; reverend.
ing summer reigns supreme. By visitor,
this will be felt quickly enough without
any other demonstration; but, if his eyes
be open, it will be patent in the striking
dropping from the western mountain
land. In passing through the sea of
Merom, the Jordan divides into three or
four branches, and so waters extensive
marshes of the veritable ancient papyrus
sedge, the once world-renowned denizen
of the Nile, but no longer; for to-day it
is unseen further south than only seven
degrees away from the equator, beyond
ETHIOPIA, on the western source of the
river. The great plain Of the lower
Jordan is dotted over with tufts and
thickets of the spicy-fruited sidv and
zuggum trees, whose thorns most prob
ably we're woven into an immortal crown.
Along the dry watercourses, the lurid
purple flowers and the golden apples of
Sodom adorn the same bushes. Along
wet water-rivulets, evergreen oleanders
raise their wealth of rosy bloom to the
height of small trees. Deep in the final
channel of the forever winding, swiftly
flowing stream, the graceful tamarisk
dips its feathery foliage in the ripping
wavelets, and lifts its delicate spikes of
minute flowers to the sky. On the Perean
side, the groves of acacia remain from
very olden times, ever sending forth de-
hcious perfume from tiny yellow balls of
bloom. And here the arborescent silk
weed rises out of the bare soil, stem
not unlike that of tree-fern, surmounted
by tuft of spray bending over on all
sides, bearing great round leaves, small,
blush flowers, and large, inflated sacs,
containing mostly air, and lastly the
familiar pod OF silken seeds. For the
balm gardens of Cleopatra one may
search in value, but the palm tree has not
wholly forsaken the site of Jericho. And,
besides these, one of the leaders in the
recent survey expedition relates that in
one little valley on the south of the Dead
Sea he collected about ons hundred and
sixty species Of plants, among which one
hundred and thirty. five are exclusively
African. In other words. these one hun
bred and thirty five species of plants are
natives of the tropics, and are not found
again this side of Ethiopia or Nubia, be.
tween twenty five and ten degrees north
latitude, in sub-tropical and tropical
Africa, with the exception of thirty seven
species which also occur in India; none
of them ever reach Europe Christian
at Work.
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ONLY A TEA GOWN,

A tea gown worn by Queen Marguerite
OF Italy has long train made after the
style Of the Louis XVI. Merveilleuses, of
cardinal crepe de Chine, lined with
heavy Persian cloth OF variegated dull
colors, eilken and gold. This falls over a
skirt OF ivory satin studded with precious
jewels of all the Oriental hues. The
stomacher of the same has q pointed
belt of gold fligree studded with pre-
cious stones. With this gown the Queen
wears quaint Oriental cap on her
blonde head. A travelling costume worn
by the Princess Waldemar of Denmark
has chinchilla cloth overdress made on
silk pleated skirt, the back drapery in
the form of the two ends of shawl
gracefully fall in cascades from the cor
sage down; the front is looped high on
the left and fastened with large bows and
long ends OF chinchilla velvet. The jer.
sey corsage is plain, with collar and cuff
OF velvet. Over this the Princess wears
cloak of dark crimson cloth, the color of
the Denmark blazonry; this garment is
heavily trimmed with black galoons and
braided passementerie. Her toque is Of
the same cloth, pinked and resting on
black velvet; a large bow of black ribbon;
ornaments of the same colors. This her.
aldo red is now the rage, especially for
children and young girls gowns.-Neao
York tribune.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
SCIENTIFIC.

The microscope now has an attachment,
by which the melting point of minerals
may be easily observed.
Natural gas has recently been diecov-
cred at Dundas, Wis; Los Angeles, Gal.
Cumberland, Ohio: Knowersville, near
Albany, N. Y; Cerro Gordo, ILL.,; and in
the Sweetwater valley, Wyoming.
At the South African diamond mines,
the precious earth is raised from the pits
by tubs running on wire cables, carried
and dumped On inclined boxes, and dis
tributed thence by small cars upon the
depositing floors.
An International conference is invited
at Paris, by the French Academy of
Sciences, to arrange for simultaneous
photograph OF the whole heavens at twelve
different stations distributed about the
globe, next spring.
The substitution of steel core for the
usual sand one, enables three men to turn
out car wheel every minute instead of
eighteen wheels day, as formerly. The
steel core, removed by knocking out a
centre key, leaves the hole ready for use
without boring.
Think Of that Hungarian engineer, at
Pesth, driving piles with dynamitel A
fifteen inch iron plate is placed on top of
the pile to be driven; circular cartridge
of dynamite, seventeen and half ounces,
is fitted to the iron plate. and exploded
by electricity.
In 1899 the French government awarded
to Louis Robert 5000 francs and fifteen
years patent, as the originator of the
paper automaton, that unequaled labor
saving machine by which paper may be
made in one unbroken sheet of any de-
sired length and width.
When the mines of South America and
Mexico under Spanish rule, made them
the worlds Ell Dorado, valuable collec-
ton of minerals was taken to Madrid,
where they have reposed in cellars of the
Academia, San Fernando, in number of
boxes, for 200 years.
The German photographers have take
views of projectiles during their flights;
and some OF them show the wave of con-
densed air preceding the shot. This
"head" of condensed air is what prevents
skillful rihemen from hitting an empty
egg shell susI ended by a long thread, by
blowing the shell to one side.
The abundant supply of sea-weed has
found new use. 1t is boiled with car.
Donate of soda, filtered and treated with
sulphuric acid; and a new viscous sub
stance is produced called "alguina," sup
erior to starch or gum arabic, for their
purposes, and adapted to make syrups
and to cookery. The residue makes good
writing paper, by cheap process.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
SUDLEY CASTLE.

Castle building was introduced into
England by the Normans to perpetuate
the rule and the reign of the Conqueror,
William, Duke of Normandy. These
donjons, afterwards called castles and
astellRted-mansions, were termed "the
letters of England"
To-day as they stand, some of them in
ruins-the very ruins of which are tire.
mendous they are objects of national
care and an ever-increasing source of both
national and domestic pride. One of the
most ancient and interesting is Sudley
Castle, Worcestershire. An old writer
in describing Sudley says: "Of subjects
castles the most handsome habitation,
and of subjects habitatiops the strongest
caetle."
Upon its site first stood a Norman
donjon, built about A. D. 1000 by Harold
de Name, son of Ralph, Earl of Hereford,
some times called the French Earl,
gorged with English wealth and English
honors." twas rebuilt in the fourteenth
century by Ralph, Lord Sudley, son of
Joan de Name, heiress of the Earl by her
husband, Sir William LIE Botelier. The
chapel standing near it is of equal anti
guilty and interest.
One of the chief historical incidents
connected with the castle and chapel is
that they were the scene Of the death and
burial of Katharine Parr, the last of the
six wives of Henry VIII. Born in 1913,
the trials of her strange, eventful life"
began almost before she emerged from
childhood, when her hand was given to
Lord Gainsborough, whose death left
her widow in her fifteenth year. The
death of her second husband, Lord Lati-
mer, left her a widow at twenty. She
became the wife of Henry VIII. at thirty
years of age. Then the royal wife-slayer
himself died, and, as his widow, within a
year from the Kings death, Katharine
married the Duke of Somerset-Lord
Seymour-who was thus her fourth hus-
band.
The Sudley Castle became her royal
home. But its celebrated possessors did
not long reside there. The ex-Queen
died there, September 5, 1547, and the
historian says, "her death was not un-
accompanied by deep suspicion of her
having been poisoned by her husband,
who had treated her with brutal unkind-
ness, and wished her dead prompted by
his ambitious hopes of yet possessing
the hand of Queen Elizabeth, whom he
endeavored to prevail upon to marry him
clandestinely."
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residence, and neither sees por speaks to
anybody until he is through with it. At
tached to his chateau there is library
which opens on one side into the hall, and
on the other side into the garden. If he
grows tired of writing he strolls out into
the garden, and nobody in the house
knows whether he is at work or not. The
only person allowed to enter the library
is waiting maid, who brings Sardou his
meals and places his letters on the table,
all without saying word. He writes
almost continuously from at night, and
his penmanship looks as though it were
executed with the point of needle
Dramatic Times.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

VEGETARIANIsM. - This is spreading
very rapidly in London. Ten years ago
it was difficult to find an avowed vegeta-
rian in London, but now more than 1000
persons refresh themselves daily at vege-
tartan estaurants.-Dietetic Reformer.
ANCIENT CASKS. The Northerland
Steamship Company's steamer Scheidana
which arrived at it's dock at New York
recently, had among its cargo two wine-
casks. The wood of which they are
made is said to be 1,700 years old. Cary
ed out in bold relief and surrounded by a
circle of twining vines are the heads of
the Emperors Trajanus and Maximus.
Beneath them is the following inscrip-
tion:"From the Roman bridge near Mainz,
commenced under the Emperor Traja-
nus A. d. SO to 1T and finished under
the Emperor Maximus A. ID. 235 to 23S."
The casks we're made in Germany for the
consignees from the wood of the bridge
mentioned in the quotation, which was
discovered about five years ago while
surveyors were making plans for a new
bridge. Nearly all of the German nobility
have relics that are made of the same
wood. At the time the wood was found
several coins were discovered bearing
dates of the same period in which the
bridge was erected. They also bore the
heads that are carved on the casks, and
it was from these coins the designs on
the casks were taken.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05
The 4tone Girtle,
MARTIN THE MONK.

-.' The dim cathedral arches DER my head,
The fretted aises where the long shadows
play,
God.barred by sunbeams, through the sum-
mer day;
Why do they seem less calm and sweet?" he
said,
Pacing the solemn-sounding nave at will,
Martin the Monk at Lincoln-on-the-Hill.
Was it but yesterday knelt within
My quiet cell, that looks across the hill,
And saw the city, mist.wreathed, hushed,
and still,
Nor dreamed thought that might be called
sin;
For my desire seemed but then to be
OF praising God through all eternity?
"was it but yesterday paced so late
The cloister cool, and watched the shadows
fall
Upon the moulded stone-work of the wall;
When one who came cried AT the outer gate
A kinsman, brother Martin, waits for thee.
And prays that thou wouldst pass to Galilee.'
"In the carved porch, the lovely Galilee,
From which glimpse of roofs AMI courts is
seen,
Sun.touched, with many bright-clad form
between,
greeted him with gladness, for that he,
NV kinsman, brought me from my distant
home
Tidings from lips to me a long time dumb.
"He spoke of home, of parents, and the pain
That one had borne, oflove, and joy. and life;
Told of success of triumph, and of strife;
Then turned him to the busy world again.
And 1, the monk, back to my cell did go.
with downcast face, and footsteps sad and
slow.
"Ah! what narrow cell is mine, and bare;
Could have triumphed in the outer world?
Loved, and the banner of success unfurled?
Is my long life to be one const ant prayer,
Bounded by gray cathedral arches SLIP"
Sighed the young monk at Lincoln-on-the-Hill'
LoI as he adown the holy choir,
Where the glad angels wait, upon the wall
Where hung the crucihx, ray did fall,
Touching the Saviour with crown of fire;
And Martin, seeing this, was fain to kneel,
For that his soul reverent awe did feel.
Martin, bore upon the cross for thee
Loneliness, pain, and sorrow, and wilt thou
Forsake me-shrinking from thy burden
now?
Martin, canst thou not bear thy cross for mel
And Martin, kneeling, saw that gracious head
Thorn-crowned and weary, and with tears he
said;
Lord 1 will follow thee! my cross is light,
Ny heart is timer and with these words the
ray
Slipped from the wall; and Martin passed
away
Back to his cell; and from that summer night
No man sang praise to God with lustier will
Than Martin, monk, at Lincoln-on the-Hill.
-Al The Year Round
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-02-05

In Hatching Horses in stalls give
rope enough only to allow the animal to
get his nose down to the floor, or very
near there. Better still-a plan adopted
by many : attach weight to the inner
end of the hitching strap, giving the latter
free and easy play over roller or smooth
substance. The weight should be suffi.
GENTLY heavy to insure that no slack oc.
cur in the hitching strap, which should
have no more weight than needed. Colts
or horses that have been entangled in
the stall in the manner referred to are
very likely, later on, to struggle fiercely
if through any mishap they have trouble
while in harness. Hired men and boys
very seldom have any system in hitching
but the sliding strap is reliable system
within itself, and, like rubber band
never slips.
If not already done, it is now in
order to prepare wind breaks for hives of
bees exposed to the chilling blasts. As
fowls and animals seek protection in sun
ny hooks from the winters cold, SO in
like manner are the bees benefited. In
all frigid regions the hives should be
protected in some manner. A Western
bee keeper suggests that when conven-
lent corn fodder set up around the hives
gives good protection from wind, and
forms a sunny nook in which the hives
will become considerably warmed upon
bright days with the mercury settled
we'll down to zero.
Fruit gro,UerS, gardeners, and small
farmers find the bill for fertilizers quite
an item of expense, much of which could
be saved if proper care was used in COM
posting their manure and availing them
selves of all the fertilizing matter within
their reach. To properly compost farm
yard manure requires considerable labor,
but it is richly repaid. Every farmer
should have acompost heap which should
be under shelter, and so arranged that
the excrements cannot dissolve and soak
away.
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FARMING IN CHINA.

liz passing through the silk growing
district which begins very near to Sbano-
hal and extends all around to the city of
Hangchow, could but be struck indeed
with the comfort sthat prevailed every-
where. says writer in the London Post.
The farmhouses of China, or at any rate
IN that part of China, were models of
what farmhouses. should be. had ex-
pected to see squalor and wretchedness.
and was not prepared for what beheld.
Exceeding good gardening L was prepar-
ed for, for Chinese gardening is synony-
nous with everything that is neat and pro-
ductive. But the orchards and mulberry
trees are all beautifully trimmed, with
the brick built and excellent houses half
hidden away in them, certainly astonish-
ed me- CHANGED to land from my house,
boat frequently in order to shoot wood.
COCK, for it was winter time when I pass-
ed through the district. To get these
birds 1t was necessary to scramble over
the fields and through the mulberry or.
chards OF the district, and I was simnlv
amazed to see how beautifully the groves
OF trees were kept. Underneath great
quantities of vegetables were grown, not a
loot OF earth appearing to be wasted, and
every inch was in the most superb order.
Had the whole country been a vast gar
den it could not have been better tended
and cared for. There were not there.
abouts any hedges or walls; the fields
were divided from each other by deem
dykes which served the double nurposa
OF marking out the land and irrigating or
draining, as the case might be, the ada
cent soil.
The trees, of which there were myriads.
were all planted with mathematical ak.
actness'and in the greatest order unlike
the trees In many English orchards, which
seem to have been stuck into the ground
with a view Of wasting as much space as
possible. And as for the tops of the trees.
they had all been carefully trimmed to
the same pattern, every little bough hay-
ing been inspected and cut as circum-
stances CHANGED to require. never saw
anything half SO orderly in any other
country in the world; for these were no
ornamental gardens which 1 was going
through, but mulberry orchards, extend
ing over hundreds of square miles of
country and owned by thousands of diff.
ferent husbandmen. Inside the house
again, l was surprised at the comfort
which prevailed. In each one there were
at least two rooms set apart especially
for the silk-worms, and these were kept
scrupulously clean. The other rooms of
the house were well furnished, comforta-
BILE and warm-in every case very clean
also; and L did not see in any country
house any of the squalor or misery one
sees IN many English, Scotch, and espe-
cially Irish districts.
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Pleasure must first have the warrant that
it is without sin; then, the measure, that it
is without excess.-H. G. Adams.